“What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.”
— Leo Tolstoy
Inspirational thoughts
Tough going…
Straight roads do not make skillful drivers.
— Paula Coelho (The Alchemist)
God’s plan
“He had said that our lives are steered by uncertainties, many of which are disruptive or even daunting; but that if we persevere and remain generous of heart, we may be granted a moment of lucidity—a moment in which all that has happened to us suddenly comes into focus as a necessary course of events, even as we find ourselves on the threshold of the life we had been meant to lead all along.”
― Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow
Acts of kindness
“A little consideration, a little thought for others, makes all the difference.” Winnie the Pooh
“Training” for heaven?
“Let us go forward in peace, our eyes upon heaven, the only one goal of our labors.”-St. Therese of Lisieux
Gratitude to God…
The secret of happiness is to live moment by moment and to thank God for all that He, in His goodness, sends to us day after day. St. Gianna Molla
Patient endurance…
The patient and humble endurance of the cross – whatever nature it may be – is the highest work we have to do. St. Katherine Drexel
Seize the day!
“Catch, then, O catch the transient hour! Improve each moment as it flies!” St. Jerome
Hopeful!
“Hope
Smiles from the threshold of the year to come,
Whispering ‘it will be happier’…”
― Alfred Tennyson
“Face” time
“I admire machinery as much is any man, and am as thankful to it as any man can be for what it does for us. But it will never be a substitute for the face of a man, with his soul in it, encouraging another man to be brave and true.” Charles Dickens